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"They can be, if being courteous makes you be limpy too."

"Going by how this worked last time, I'll be fine in no time," Bridge says easily.

"...Which last time was that?" Because that's gonna help him not be a worrywart.

"Um, the time I got a troll thrown at me?"

"Oh, the time you got a troll thrown at you. Well, pfft, that happens." It might be evident that he's being sarcastic. Then again, he might want to consider who he's talking to.

"Really?" Bridge says, surprised. "Not that I know much about trolls. The ones in my reality are more likely to trap you in jars or hypnotize you with accordion music than throw their slightly shorter friends at you."

"The ones in my reality don't have slightly shorter friends. They mostly drink grog and squish tiny human people."

"...I think I'll take trapped in a jar over that any day."

"I might take the getting squished over the accordian music, though."

"We could just stay away from trolls altogether?" Bridge suggests. "Especially the kind who were here last year because the girl trolls would try and steal you and that'd make me sad."

Xander's experience with trolls extends to one very large male one who used to be human before he cheated on Xander's first prom date. "There are girl trolls?"

Come to think of it, Isabel may have mentioned something about that at some point.

"Yes. And they tried to kidnap all the good-looking guys and keep them for themselves and I'd throw my crutches at them if I had to if they tried to get you even if I couldn't exactly fault their taste."

That would be Xander laughing. "And then you wouldn't be able to get away when they went after you," he points out.

"Maybe," Bridge says. "But if I didn't actually succeed in driving them away from you then at least I'd be *with* you and I'm okay with that. Or, if you did escape I know you'd come back later to rescue me," he points out logically.

"I would," Xander agrees. "But maybe we could just stay away from trolls altogether." He says it like it's his idea and Bridge didn't just say that three minutes ago.

"I agree completely," Bridge says.

"Course if we could just stop breaking ourselves in general, that'd be keen."

"I didn't do it on *purpose*!" Bridge protests.

"I know! I meant in general general. Like all of us."

"Oh. Well. Yes. I agree. New Year's resolution?" Not that he's entirely sure it'd be possible to keep such a resolution given, well... them being them and Fandom being Fandom.

"Let's get crushed less this year?"

"For all degrees of crushed," Bridge says. "I'm not keen on scraping you off the sidewalk like in that song."

"......Que?"

"You know, that song from... well, this is one of those 'longer ago for you than for me' things. A bunch of us sang it one night at Caritas. You were there." He glances around quickly to make sure no one's in the library- yes, it's lunchtime and the likelihood of that is low, but still. "Our love was no joke, you know it was the talk of downtown Tokyo, we'll be happy forever I promised her, but just as I proposed, her feet were made to touch her nose as she was crushed by a Japanese monster..."

That would be the sound of Xander laughing so loud you could possibly hear it from town without the use of a phone.

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